Have we noticed a strange trend in this country, of people
not wanting to be adults? I just heard
about a place where adults can go and pretend to be in preschool, no joke they
charge a crazy amount of money per week.
We now have gummy vitamins for adults, I am continually hearing wives’
compline about their husbands playing video games. All off this seems strange to me, I enjoyed
certain things when I was a child, but as I grew up and became an adult I begin
to enjoy being an adult, I took on responsibilities, a job, home repairs, making
sure that we have the money to pay all of our bills. Knowing how to dress for certain occasions. Knowing that if I so chose to do so I could
stay up past mid-night, which I rarely do unless we go to Drive-In movies or
have company over. I have actually heard
grown adults say I don’t really want to be an adult.
What is so wrong with being an adult, is it the fact that we
have to become responsible for our own actions?
As an adult there’s no one to blame, we can’t blame mom and dad for not
telling us it was time to go to bed. Do
we not enjoy having to go to a job most days so we can pay our bills? I feel one of the worst things happening in
this country is that adults are no longer being adults. They have decided that they want to stay
teenagers, play video games, take gummy/chewable gummies. The thing they also want is all the benefits of
being adults without having any of the responsibilities. Want a good marriage? You have to work at it.
You have to carve out time to be with
your wife, you have to talk to your wife and listen to her, same goes for you
wives. The problem is many people want
to be teenagers so instead of actually working at being married they end up
living in the same house but grow apart because they don’t want to work it
out. Many people want to move up in their
place of work, they don’t want to work hard at it though. They just think you need to give them the promotion
without working all that hard. You know
a lot like how high school worked, you didn’t need to work that hard to keep
moving up.
I feel this is even more important for those of us who have
decided to follow Christ, we are so excited when we come to follow Christ, but
then we decided we love just being young Christians. They decide that is where they want to stay,
they don’t want to grow in Christ because that would mean they might have to
change. The writer of Hebrews scolded
his readers for this, “There is so much more we would like to
say about this. But you don’t seem to listen, so it’s hard to make you
understand. You have been Christians a long time now, and you ought to be
teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things
a beginner must learn about the Scriptures. You are like babies
who drink only milk and cannot eat solid food. And a person who is living on
milk isn’t very far along in the Christian life and doesn’t know much about
doing what is right. Solid food is for those who are mature, who have trained
themselves to recognize the difference between right and wrong and then do what
is right.”[1] What if we began to work towards being adults
and putting away our childish things and really begin to experience a new and
experience in adulthood.
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